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Books
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES
In Bite-Size Verse
Published by:
Book Guild Publishing
Pavilion View
19 New Road
BRIGHTON
BN1 1UF
Tel : 01273 720900
Paperback. £12.99. ISBN 978-1-84624-246-5
500 pages
Illustrations by Michael Avery
From the jacket of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Bite Size
Verse.
For all its great reputation and the affection in which it
is held, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written as it is in
Middle English, can actually be a daunting prospect to
read.
Now, following the success of his Easy Reading
Shakespeare: The Bard in Bite-Size Verse, Richard
Cuddington steps in with a novel approach to Chaucer's
famous gallery of pilgrims with their tales of chivalry,
romance, courtly love, treachery, avarice, bawdiness,
humour and nobility.
Whether you're new to the tales, or perhaps a teacher
looking to enthuse and stimulate your students, or simply
thinking of re-reading them, you will find here a
thoroughly entertaining and immediately accessible way in
to the storytelling genius of Chaucer in simple and
amusing rhyming verse:
'While other folk were hard at work
Reciting prayers and psalms,
These three lads were hard at work
A-bending their right arms.
It was the tavern where they prayed,
A worship of a sort,
For here they gulped down pints of beer
And sack and wine and port.'
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